PORTFOLIO Dalian Polytechnic University Industrial Design Jinghan Shi
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BIO
Name Jinghan Shi Gender Female Birth Date 20 Oct. 1989 Adress 3-12-2 Building 5, Xingjiapo Garden, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, Liaoning, China Email lypsl@yahoo.cn Mobile +8613674243969 Degree 2008-2012 Dalian Polytechnic University, Industrial design (BA)
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Awards The iF Design Award 2013 300 Finalist. The Red dot Design Award 2012 Finalist. The Third Prize of Dalian Design Festival. The excellent design award of Neowiser Commercial furniture design competition, 2011. The Second Prize of "Zheyan Bei" organized by Zhejiang Province Salt company. The Best Creativity Award of “Cultural Exchanges between British and China� T-shirt design competition. The First-Class Scholarship in the first semester between the academic year 2009 and 2010. Exhibition Dalian Design Festival 2012
Experience In May 2013, I was chosen to represent Dalian Polytechnic University in an upcycling competition taking place in Changsha, China 06/2011-To Date: Design Researcher of Neowiser design institute. Worked as a junior design researcher. Duties included furniture concept design and yacht interior design research for Neowiser furniture company & co. In 2010 and 2011, I was an assistant when the Singapore Polytechnic University students came to Dalian. In 2010, I attended Chinese and Foreign traditional culture communication meeting which between Dalian Polytechnic University and Southampton University on Dragon Boat Festival Skills User-centered Design Research, Prototyping, Story board and design. Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino Chinese(Native), English(Fluent) 3
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E-Cleaning
Autistic FUNiture
Subject: Graduation design of 4-year's academy study. This design won the excellent graduate, and exhibited in Dalian design festival. And it also won the iF Design Award 300 Finalist.
Subject: Design a form for Newiser furniture company to provide to the autistic children.
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04 Organic Vege-Mart
Upcycling Design
Subject: Concept design for urban farming solution.
Subject: An upcycling design competition producing pieces of artwork or design using industrial waste.
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E-Cleaning Individual work / 2013 This concept is inspired from the experience of looking after my grandpa who is not able to move. During the nursing time, I noticed that it is very hard for him to brush the teeth independently, and most of other patients ignored their tooth cleaning. I found that there might be a common need for the people who have disease that cause them lies in the bed all the time. Additionally, for the youth generation, who'd like to ignore their dental health, the E-Toothbrush can easily and healthily help them keep their teeth in good condition. Youth can even text their friends or post photos to Facebook while the tooth cleaning.
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Background Tooth Cleaning
Daily cares for disabilities lying in bed. Excretion Skin cleaning Simple activities
Daily Care unobservable
Daily Care observable
Through daily life observation, I find that some elders and other people lying in bed, such as puerpera, patient after surgical operations, also need the same cleaning and care as normal people. In numerous body situations, sport, skin and excretion are more sensitive for body and easily to be perceived. However, dental health, because of its lack of pain, becomes a blind spot in daily care.
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Target Group According to the analyse of target group, I find that there are various reasons for lying in bed, so it is hard to define the age, gender and body situation. But the common point of the people who lying in bed is that they can do some simple activities, and have strong will to clean their body.
Character of lying-in-bed people Have limits on activities Can not hold the pose for long time Can not do the complete cleaning
Convenient to use Shorten the using time Clean the oral completely
Need other's help
Take other's operation as condition
Want to be independent
Prefers to independently operation
Feel alone and helpless
Genial and smooth appearance
Lack of sense of security
Be operated properly and safely
Strong will to do activities
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They need a PRODUCT...
Do the complete cleaning by themselves
Research Professional Consulting Thinking about I am not profession in dental, so I went to the dental clinic to ask dentist about the professional knowledge and observe how the cleaning machine operates.
Tooth model and Different Sizes
Medical tooth cleaning machine
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Design Requirements
Brain Storming Ideation
Psychological Sense of safety Comfortable Being Independent
Functional Shorten the using time Clean completely Convenient/ Automatic Efficient/ Accurate/ Stable Humanized
Physical Innovative appearance Clean Detailed Reliable colour 10
How do we do the tooth cleaning without a toothbrush?
Product Idea 1 Use some parts of own body to do the cleaning to reduce the process.
Is there any other way or inspiration?
Idea 3
How did ancient people clean their teeth?
I imagine there is a equipment can put in one's mouth, then do the cleaning automatically.
Idea 2 Get the inspiration from ancient tooth cleaning by che wing the branch.
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Concept 1
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Early Concepts Concept 2
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Future Sense
Bionic
Simplicity
Inspired by architecture, fashion and nature. 14
Final Concept Mock-ups and Using test
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Technology Support 01 03
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When light strikes the panel, electrons are generated. These electrons move along the lead wire form the megative pole toward the semiconductor. When light strikes the wet semiconductor, electron are generated (photocatalytic action). Together with the electrons generated at the 01 , and the semiconductor, these electrons move to the inside of the mouth through saliva. (wet source) These double electrons remove the hydrogen ion within dental plaque, allowing the dental plaque to break down, As a result, dental plaque is easier to remove and brushing is more effective, thus promoting healthier teeth and gums.
Give it a bite and let it start to work. When the power is on, the inner spring pressure fingers can give the outer silica gel shell a pressure to make the silica gel brush jointing together with teeth.
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silica gel brush coat
soft plastic teeth braces shell
pressure sensor spring spring strip metal coil permanent magnet
Wash the mouth to do simple cleaning of teeth and make the teeth wet with water.
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Final Design
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Assembling
blue light working state display white frosted silica gel toothbrush cap blue light working state display
grey blue transparent acrylic
grey frosted plastic
white ABS base inner glow display grey frosted plastic key
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How to use
1. Wash the mouth to do simple cleaning of 2. Set toothbrushing time. Generally, according teeth and make the teeth wet with water.
to people’s oral cleaning degree and time of action, the complete cleaning time is 30 seconds to 1 minute.
3. Put the oral cleaner into the user’s mouth.
4. User need to bite the Oral cleaner to let it 5. Wash the mouth and make the water out of 6. Wash the teeth cleaner and then put it to the
work.
the mouth.
base to charge or deposit.
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Autistic FUNiture Individual work / 2012 This project is designed for newiser furniture company to provide the study furniture to autistic children. They want some conceptual design instead of commercial ones to highlight their concern and research of this disease. I designed a see-saw study furniture to put emphasis on the interaction methods between students and teachers.
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Background
The data published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA in the first half of this year indicated that: in the latest Autism Spectrum Disorder, the morbidity was that there is 1 out of 88 children, the morbidity of boys was 5 times of girls, there was 1 autistic child among 54 boys, and there was 1 autistic child among 252 girls. The morbidity increased 23% than 2009, and no reasons could be found. One of the treatments for autistic children is the communication and education for light or medium autistic children through computers, which is the background that I design children studying furniture.
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Design Research
ST RATE GIE S/SKILLS S Y M P TOMS Compulsive maintenance of stereotypic patterns Spinning, flapping Fragmentation of persons
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NE E DS/GOA L S Face-to-face interaction Expression of needs and emotion (verbal or symbolic) Bodily contact and interactional games
pleasurable stimulation autonomy, agency control over environment
Psychology case study Fr o m Pr o fe s s o r A. K a T a t T s a n g , U n iv e r s i ty of Tor onto
Professor Zeng once put forward a typical case. The child was seriously autistic, he entered into the room, and his parents were looking at him by the uni-directional glass at the next door.The professor raised up the child to spin as soon as he entered into the room, and the child was very happy. Afterwards, he wanted to leave the room, while the child unexpectedly held his clothes tightly. At the very moment, the parents burst into tears, because the child had never set up relationship with his parents since his birth, even without saying a word.
The case illustrated that even though for the autistic children, they needed games or a close way to set up interactive relationship, same as ordinary children. And this is the element that should be considered in my following design.
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Design Requirement
Colourful and Sparkling things
Like to be encouraged and raised up
Generally speaking, for children, pleasure originates from external sensory stimulations. For example, children like shiny things, running around and being raised up. Even the children with autism have such requirements, while adults always ignore these requirements because they can not set up normal relationship with the autistic children.
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P S Y C H OL O GICAL
FUNCTIONAL
Warm Keep some privacy Eye contact
Interesting and playable Easy to be used
PHYSICAL Simple Graphical Colourful Cartoon Style
Ideation
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Sketches and Mock-ups
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Modeling I decided to use laser cutter to make the pieces for a 1:5 scale model. The technology enabled the modeling process to be fast and accurate.
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1:5 Scale Model
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Organic Vege-Mart Urban farming solutions Individual work / 2013 The concept is based on the growing urbanization that people are facing an increasingly artificial world. Correspondingly, people also have the desire to live naturally. People are concerned about how their food has been manipulated and processed before reaching their plates. The “Organic Vege-Mart� provides the fresh food and the process is crystal transparency.
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Background I did a simple research among 20 people, to ask them the information about ORGANIC VEGETABLE. The result inllustrates that most of them have eaten the organic vegetable and they have the eager to buy that. But the problem is that some of them do not know how to distinguish organic vegetables to regular ones, and most of them do not know where to buy the REAL organic vegetable.
I have eaten
I don't know how to distinguish
I will buy
I don't know where to buy
People pay more attention to the safety and quality of vegetable, they would rather buy the organic vegetable than the regular ones which has been exposured to be over-sprayed by chemical fertilizers and pesticides. But we can not 100 % sure that all the organic vegetables sold in market are really organic. So I want to design a market that grow the vegetables transparently to the customers, so they can be assured the purchase.
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Farm
Vegetable
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The customers have no idea about where the vegetable come from, and whether it is organic or not.
How to buy it directly? Transportation
It costs extra money and energy to transport the vegetable from farm to another place.
Market
It has the problem that market should pay extra money to store the to avoid being decay.
Customer
Ideation and Sketch I want to design a new farming-shopping system to meet the people's needs, and this is how I imagine what the system will be in the future.
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Technology Support Hydroponic-farming Technology
Substrates
In continuous-flow solution culture, the nutrient solution constantly flows past the roots. Sampling and adjustments to the temperature and nutrient concentrations can be made in a large storage tank that has potential to serve thousands of plants.
Substrates
Growing Light
By partial decomposition of sphagnum, mosses, sedges under acid and waterlogged conditions.
Growing Light
Nutrient Solution
Provide a spectrum that is more tailored to the needs of the plants being cultivated.
Nutrient Solution The hydroponic nutrient solution consists of minerals in the raw water and nutrients added with organic fertilizers.
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Design detail
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Organic Vegve-Mart Urban farming solutions
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Upcycling Design
Project #1 Waste PVC fracture Splint design Individual work / 2013 The splint is manufactured from PVC tubing, because of its strength and cylinderical shape. PVC is a relatively cheap material and one of the waste material for the upcycling theme. One tube can be very efficiently manufactured into one pair of slings. The product is designed to reflect and protray a designer’s concern for its users, further reflecting the intelligence of design.
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Design Background
I attended the Sino-UK design project in Changsha May, 2013. With China becoming the “Factory of the World”, the manufacturing enterprises in China are producing numerous industrial leftovers everyday, which have become one of the biggest sources for environmental pollution. Recycling them consumes more energy and results in second time pollutions. Unlike recycling, “upcycling” reuses left-overs as raw materials without second-time chemical or physical processing such as melting, refining. Therefore, “upcycling” can both increase energy efficiency and add value to materials that can’t be recycled through traditional processing methods.
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My understanding of UPCYCLING
Destroy -Value
New Product
Dead Product
Value 100%
-Value
Dump -Value
Re-design by designer
New "upped" product
upping value
value improved
+value
Available in store +value
Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.Upcycling is the opposite of downcycling. Downcycling involves converting materials and products into new materials of lesser quality. In my opinion, upcycling is the way to use waste material to to reinvest in the dead stock through a new way of designing, introducing new functions, new aesthetics and new markets to leftover goods in order to bring them back into circulation. That is what my goal to achive this design. 44
Ideation URGENTLY NEEDED
PRODUCT
DESIGN OPPORTUNITY
Fracture Splint Kit, Cervical Traction, Respirator, Stretcher, etc.
MEDICAL DIVICES MEDICINE Transfusion bottle Bondage, Injector, etc.
SUPPLIES Tent, Moving Toilt, Communication tools, Daily good, etc.
There was a serious earthquake happened in Ya'an Sichuan Province after we got the material information list, over 10,000 people got injured. It reminds me of the Wenchuan earthquake happened 5 years ago. So many people got injured during the catastrophe. Among all the urfently needed supplies, fracture splint is mostly needed of medical appratus. As a product designer, I want to use the character of the material smartly. Further more, I think design can help the people who got injured. The product is designed to reflect andprotray a designer's concern for its users, further reflecting the intelligence of design.
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Design Sketches Sketch
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Prototyping
1. Make a paper proof.
2. Cut a tube into two pieces.
3. Use the grinder to make the proper shape.
4. Use the air heater to bend it into the proper angle.
5. Polishing
6. Finish making a prototype.
7. Try it on my arm to find out if it is fit or not.
4. Sow a belt for it. And get the final product.
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Mass-Production
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Final Design
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Upcycling Design
Project #2 Waste marbel Housewares design Group work with tutor and student from Central Lancashire/ 2013 The inspiration for this product range comes directly from a sequence of Taichi movements and aims to capture its values in an entirety and bring them into everyday life through the way people interact with objects and environments within their home.
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Ideation Taichi Movement Peaceful
Peacful Movement
Powerful Movement
Powerful
Bathroom/Bedroom:
Kitchen/ Living Room:
Candle/Flower/Soap/ Toothbrush
Book Shelf/ Fruit bowl/ Cutlery
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Design Process
We started from the analysis of Taichi postures, the way how people interact with nature and themselves inpired us. So we set up a lots of environment and using scenario before desigm. After that, we got the abstract figures from Taichi postures, and make them into paper model to stick on the waste marble and cut it into particular shapes. All the marble pieces are wasted from factory. Although the pieces are manufacture off-cuts they still poses the same qualities of the original pieces with smooth surface finishes, and naturally rough edges, each piece being unique. 52
Different rooms and objects in the home have different functions and emotional impacts on people, used at specific times of the day, for different reasons, in the same way with which Taichi can make people feel tranquility and powerful at the same time. This leads directly back to the figure designs which get their abstract shapes from specific Taichi postures. Each posture is used for item storage in a room which shares its characteristics, for instance a slow relaxing Taichi movement can be found in the bedroom used to hold nicely scented candles. Each piece has a unique emotion and function, to inspire and courage people to engage in Taichi in their daily routine. 53
Smaller key touch points for wider spaces between the keys.
The concept is to design an ideal qwerty for the girls who fancy nail polishing, because they often break the nails by typing the keyboard, and mistype the keys by the long nail. With this issue we created a quitie silicon qwerty cover, peotect the qwerty, as well as protect the users' nails by adding a sphere. It could also be very personalized to match the nail polished style.
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Before
Now
Qutie Qwerty Quirky Newiser Design Institute Personal contribution: Ideation, Refinement
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Gesture Translator Problems
Newiser Design Institute Personal contribution: Redesign concept ideation excuse me...
It is believed that the dumb or the deaf are all normal people, just not so fortune as us. They should be helped to share things with anyone around, and even who do not understand gesture language. Thus a mobile application is designed, to translate the gesture language into a verbal way, at the same time, translate the sound to texts.
We think... (sign language)
Scenario Thinking
I want to buy a watch for my brother, he is young, and.....
this watch has bright colour, and...
thank you, i will take it.
Ivy is dumb, she wants to buy a gift for his brother, but she needs advice from sale assistant.
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Parking Assistant As the number of vehicles is on the rise, the parking space is increasingly rare. It is not easy for drivers to be provided with a parking bay straight away when they drive into a parking lot. In finding a vacancy, the parking fee is increasing, more exhaust fumes by repetitive move and stop.
Where to park?
individual work Subject: Red-dot Design Entry Award 2012
Light Sensor
Concept Development Laser Light
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The concept is to set a small projector in the middle of each parking bay which is used to project a circle on the ceiling and indicate aavailability of this bay; when a parking bay is occupied, meantime, the projector is covered by a vehicle, and the projector will turn off automatically.
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The Four years' academy study did not only teach me the design skills, but also taught me how to think as a responsable designer. I am fully prepared to change the world!
Thank you for your patience to read my portfolio!
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